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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

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Yu-Heng Lin, the first author of the study, places a tarp over the webs to protect them from the rain and observe the effect. On the right is an orb web from the genus Argiope. 

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Emilia Luzuriaga Cáceres and Yu-Heng Lin/UBC

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